How do you turn off commenting?

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   sunnwritesposted 2 years ago

   I can't figure out how. There is one article where I would like to turn off commenting if that's possible because one of my articles might attract cyberbullies. I haven't gotten any comments yet but still
   
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      Matt Wellsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      You can't turn comments off, but if you want a comment removed, you can send an email to team@hubpages.com, and we can help.
      
      These Network Sites have the comment feature.
      
      https://axleaddict.com/
      https://wanderwisdom.com/
      https://letterpile.com/
      https://soapboxie.com/
      https://delishably.com/
      https://pairedlife.com/

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         Sue Adamsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Why only those sites, why not all sites?

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            Matt Wellsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            We are working on adding comments to the rest of the Network Sites.

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               Glenn Stokposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Hi Matt, Are we also going to have the ability re-enabled to delete useless comments? You may recall some time ago I needed to remove those that were not helpful for SEO purposes.

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               Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Then, only then, comment button would be restored to hubpages, and discover?

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         eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

         Can we get all comments removed? I've noticed large amounts of text in comments which is duplicated on other sites. Without trawling through all the comments to check, would it be better to just do away with them all in case google penalises articles for duplication?

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            Matt Wellsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

            You can't turn comments off, but if you want a comment removed, you can send an email to team@hubpages.com, and we can remove it.

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               eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

               Can we also get Q&As removed?

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                  Glenn Stokposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                  Yes Eugene, you can remove, or edit, Q&As by clicking the Q&A tab under the “Articles” tab.  Then scroll down to “filters” and change it to “answered.”
                  
                  You will see a complete list of all your previously answered questions, and you can remove any you don’t want by clicking the green “Hide Q&A” button.

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                     eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                     The reason I asked is because I often suspect Google penalises very long articles. My triangle tutorial (which used to get 2500 daily views and now only 300) has a large number of Q&As at the bottom. A lot of the content is just me repeating myself, answering questions by students where the questions are just variations on a theme. Maybe Google sees this as duplication?

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                        Glenn Stokposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                        That’s possible. I maintain the Q&A for that reason—deleting duplicate questions, editing poorly written questions, and even moving my useful answers into the body of the articles.
                        
                        I’m glad we still have control over Q&A despite the fact that adding new ones has been discontinued.

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                           eugbugposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                           Thanks Glenn. I'm just after going through the questions and deleting some that were similar to other questions and the content of the guide.

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                              Glenn Stokposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                              You’re welcome, Eugene. It’s good you’re being proactive with deleting the duplicate or similar questions. It’s very possible that Google’s algorithm would consider them keyword spamming.

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                              DrMark1961posted 2 years agoin reply to this

                              Please let the rest of us know if you are seeing an upturn in traffic for those articles.

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                                 Glenn Stokposted 2 years agoin reply to this

                                 DrMark, When I did that over a year or two ago, it did seem to help with increased traffic. But it was difficult to determine if it was a result of removing duplicate Q&A. In any case, that increase was short-lived, especially with the way I’m seeing a huge lose of traffic over the past few months.

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   sunnwritesposted 2 years ago

   Oh, nevermind, I just saw the other person's post below mine.
   
   But if that specific article does end up getting comments is there a way to contact HubPages to turn them off?
   
   Thank you

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   Miebakagh57posted 2 years ago

   It all depends on the location of the article.                                      If it's on a network site, or an author post it for discussion in a forum, and you don't like it, you can flag or report. A moderator will then look into it, and deleted the comment, but not the discussion or comment icon.

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   Brenda Arledgeposted 2 years ago

   Matt...
   It's great that these niche sites have comments...but what good does it do if we aren't notified when we receive a comment.
   There's no way I can go through each one to search for a new comment.

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      Matt Wellsposted 2 years agoin reply to this

      We don't have comment notifications when someone comments on your article yet, but you can configure your comment settings to get a notification if someone replies to your comment. You can do this in the Profile settings tab of the comment box.

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   eugbugposted 2 years ago

   Can we get our comments removed from other people's articles? I may have commented on an article similar to my own, but the content of the comment could be similar to content in my own article. So I don't want Google to penalise me.

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      Miebakagh57posted 2 years agoin reply to this

      Seems it's impossible for hubpages writers to  have a reach on that? Why not email team@hubpages.com/  to get the gist of the issue. Thanks.

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